‘Candy Bomber’ Who Dropped Sweets Amid Berlin Airlift Dies

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DENVER—A U.S. military pilot known as the “Candy Bomber” for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin Airlift after World War II ended has died. Gail S. Halvorsen was 101 when he died Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded by most of his children, James Stewart, the director of […]

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